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Spring Hill mother uses daughter to steal stroller at Disney World

A Spring Hill mother is facing grand theft charges after being accused of stealing an $1,800 stroller at Hollywood Studios, then selling it online.

Michelle Craig turned herself into Hernando County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday after Orange County detectives issued an arrest warrant. A Disney surveillance picture showed the alleged thief placing her young daughter in the fancy Bugaboo stroller before pushing it out of the park.

The theft occurred on April 15 and ruined a visit to Walt Disney World for Lauren Collazo, who reported that her car keys, wallet and her niece’s EpiPen were missing from the stroller basket. Her husband had to fly from Miami to rescue the family.

A Texas woman contacted Collazo after buying her stroller online from Craig.

The youngest of seven children, Terry O. Roen followed two older brothers into journalism. Her career started as a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, where she wrote stories on city and county government, schools, courts and religion. She has also reported for the Associated Press, where she covered the Casey Anthony and Trayvon Martin trials along with the Pulse massacre. Married to her husband, Hal, they have two children and live in Winter Park. A lifelong tourist in her own state, she writes about Central Florida’s growing tourism industry for Florida Politics and Orlando Rising.